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CLEVER AND URATE.
RECORD OF AN AMERIOAN COW
BOY IN BOER RANKS.
Was Formerly a Lieutenant Oolonel In
the Sixth United States Cavalry —lias
Lately Been Heard Froxu Thxough tli
War Corresponded*.
One of the Americans now in the |
Boer army who has been heard from |
through the South African correspon- |
dent is "Beau" Blake, formerly a cow- j
boy down in Texas. "At the time I
made his acquaintance," said an old i
friend the other day, " 'Beau' was in- j
terested, with a Kentucklan of the j
name of Harvey Watson, in a horse i
ranch south of Brownsville. He was a |
big. good natured, powerful fellow, ,
with humorous Irish blue eyes and a !
small, sandy mustache. Although he i
had no record as a 'bad man,' it was !
pretty well understood that he ha<! J
plenty of sand and could take care ol ■
himself in an emergency. I saw thai ,
fully demonstrated one night at Fori
Worth. He was in town on some busi
ness, and, happening to walk into u
bar attached to a gambling bouse then
famous throughout the southwest, en
countered a cattle man of the name oi
Ed Armstrong, with whom ho had had
some difficulty over a stock brand.
"Armstrong had the reputation ot
being a 'killer,' and as soon as he saw
Blake he reopened the old quarreL
Blake replied to his remarks good
humoredly, but ho became more and
COl BLAKE,
moie insulting and finally whipped out
a six-shooter and leveled It at the
Irishman's head. 'Now, you hound!' i
he roared, 'I want you to tell the whole
house that you're a liar!'
"The action was so sudden that
Blake had no timo to defend himself,
but he never turned a hair. 'Aw, put
that thing away,' he said laughingly.
Then, looking over Armstrong's shoul
der, he added, as if speaking to some
body behind him: 'lt's all right, Har
vey; he's only kidding.'
"Thinking that Blake's partner, Wa
tson, had entered the place and was
in his rear, the desperado instantly
wheeled around. As he did so the big
Irishman hit him a crushing blow un
der the ear and knocked him fully a
dozen feet. His revolver flew out of his
hand as he fell and exploded harmless
ly in the air, and before he could re
cover'his senses Blake was on his chest
with his hands on his throat.
"That ended the row and made an
everlasting impression on my mind.
By the way, Blake got his nickname of
'Beau' from a favorite expression of his
while a cowboy. On Sundays ho used
to 'beau up,' as he called it, to visit
some girls on an adjoining ranch.
'Beauing up' consisted of shaving and
taking his trousers out of hi 3 boots."
Blake was a lieutenant colonel in th
Sixth cavalry, U. S. A., and spent nine
years, until 1889, fighting Indiana and
campaigning in Arizona, New Mexico.
Indian Territory and along the Mexi
can border. He was born in Missouri
Tortolte Traveled.
A tortoise story comes from Center
Bridge, Bucks county. Edward John
son was walking over his farm the
other day, when he picked up a land
tortoise bearing the initials of his
father,. D. H. Johnson, and the dats
1846. These initial! were cut on the
tortoise when Mr. Johnson's father,
who ha* been dead several years, was
a boy of seventeen, making the tor
toise over fifty-four years old. It hap
been picked up on the farm several
times by members of the family, but
bad becu JEiselng for a number of
yearn.
1 NO"TRUSTS" SAYS HANNA
THE REPUBLICAN DICTATOR DE
CLARES THEIR EXISTENCE A MYTH.
In a Recent Oratorical Effort In Chicago
Ho Said: " I Don't Believe That
There is a Trust in the United States"
—Merely Quibbling With Words.
Headquarters Democratic National
Committee, Chicago.
On the afternoon of September 18
Mark Hanua made a speech to the la
boring men of Chicago. There is
nothing remarkable alxxit that, as Mr.
Hanna hits made various other
speeches at other places, and will
probably make many more. The par
ticular tiling to tie noted, however, in
Mark Ilanna's oratorical effort is that
he has placed himself upon record in
regard to a few matters that are at
present very important to the Ameri
can people. lie said for example,
among ot ir things: "I don't believe
that there is a trust in the United
States." This sentiment is no new
one with the Senator from Ohio; he
has said it before, or, at least, he has
written it Hut the Republican press
has stoutly maintained that when such
ideas were attributed to Mr. Ilanna it
it was simply done through malice by
partisan Democratic papers; in fact,
it was claimed that Mr. Hanna was
misrepresented. It was urged that he
was far too intelligent a man, too as
tute a political lender to maintain for
j a single Instant that there were no
| trusts in the United States. Hence it
I was particularly gratifying that he
! should in ids speech to the laboring
I men of Chicago stand erect round
j out his chest, and bellow forth that
"there are uo trusts in the United
I Slates."
lr is ovmeui iu cuty iuw.-nigi.-ut
voter that Mr. Hauna was not stating
facts, but was merely quibbling with
words, ltegariling some phases of pol
itics the average voter is familiar with
them only through the press or other
current literature, lie knows what
has been written upon that particular
subject. Regarding many matters, po
litical in their nature, it is impossible
for the masses of the people to have
direct knowledge. But with the trust
question it is different Let Mr. Hauna,
for Instance, go to the farmers of any
one of our Western States anil say,
rrbere is 110 nail trust," anil the farm
er would reply at once, "Call it trust,
combination, corporation or what you
please, I know this, that there is some
sort of organization existing that dur
ing the last three years has raised the
price of nails nearly 200 per cent." If
Mr. Hanna should assure the farmer
that there is 110 lumber trust lie
would receive a similar answer, for
the farmer knows that the price of
lumlßT during the present. Adminis
tration has been consistently and sys
tematically raised up and held at a
level only possible through a trust or
ganization.
The position of the Republican party
in regard to the trusts—acknowledg
ing that Mr. Ila una voices the posi
tion—and if Mr. Hanna does not speak
for the party it could very pertinently
bo asked who does, is untenable. The
first ac 4 : of the MeKinley Administra
tion and of the Republican Congress
that went in with it was the passage
of the Dingloy Tariff bill. Under the
operation of this law the growth of
the trusts have been amazingly rapid.
The bill destroyed all foreign compe
tition, and the domestic market was
left absolutely to the trusts formed
under the measure.
Under this bill the sugar interests
received greater benefits than were
ever before bestowed. Foreign compe
tition being cut off the American con
sumers were left absolutely at the
uiercy of the Sugar Trust. The Amer
ican people have been furnished in
the last three months with a practical
example of the power and methods of
operation of the trusts. The figures
must be familiar to every consumer
of sugar—so familiar, iu fact, that the
only reason for referring to tliem is
"less *we forget," as the American
voter Is sometimes very prone to do.
The Sugar Trust lias advanced the
price of sugar during the summer as
follows:
May 22, 1900, $3.20 per 100 pounds."
May 23, 1900, $5.30 per 100 pounds.
May 20, 1900, $5.40 per 100 pounds.
May 31, 1900, $5.50 per 100 pounds.
June 1, 1900, .$5.00 per 100 pounds.
June 14, 1900, $5.70 per 100 pounds.
June 25, 1900, $5.80 per 100 pounds.
July 5, 1900, $5.90 per 100 pounds.
July 9, 1900, SO.OO per 100 pounds.
But enough of the Sugar Trust, for
assuredly the American ix?ople have
had enough of it. Immediately after
the passage of the Dingley bill the
American Steel and Wire Company
formed a trust, as a result of the for
mation of the trust the price of nails
ahd wire fencing was doubled, anil
the American farmers were forced to
pay a substantial tribute to that same
trust; yet Mary Hanna says tliere are
no trusts. As a result of the passage
of the Dingley bill the Federal Steel
Company was organized, and as a re
sult of the organization of the Federal
Steel Company iron anil steel products
immediately doubled in value. The
Dingley bill made it possible to form
a Hide and Leather Trust As a result
1 of the formation of this trust the price
[ of shoes, harness and other leather
[ goods were increased. The American
j laborer cannot cover the feet of his
children without paying tribute to a
trust; yet Mark Hanna says there are
no tfusts. The Dingley bill made it
possible to form a woolen goods trust,
and—a woolen goods trust was Imme
diately formed. The laborer cannot
clothe his children against the winds
r, f winter without contributing to the
greed of the trusts, and yet Mark
Hanna says there are "110 trusts."
Immediately after the passage of the
j Dingley bill all tin plate manufactur
era formed a trust, and tin in all Its
forms constantly demanded a higher
price. Even the poor sewing woman
did not escape, for sewing thread man
ufacturers combined and the price of
thread nearly doubled. Even the price
of salt is controlled by a trust.
It might be interesting for the voter
to peruse carefully a list of the tocor-
Iforated trusts which are existing in
the United States at the present time,
that is. If the columns of the ordinary
newspaper .were long enough to hold
it, which they were not. A complete
list of the trusts would occupy pages.
In order that the v oter may have some
Idea of the number of trusts that do
exist, Mark Hanna, notwithstanding,
we present the following list tabulated
under the letter "A." There are al
most as many trusts tabulated under
the other letters of the alphabet, X. Y,
Z alone excepted, but the list of trusts
commencing with the letter "A," how
over, may be sufficiently numerous to
open the eyes of any one who may not
have taken the pains to acquaint him
self fully with the trust situation.
Alabama Consolidated Coal and
Iron Co., five properties.
Amalgamated Copper Co., six prop
erties.
American Agricultural Chemical Co,
twenty-nine fertilizer plants.
American Automatic Weighing Ma
chine Co.. three companies, all in the
United States.
American Axe and Tool Co., sixteen
plants.
American Boot Sugar Company,
properties in Nebraska anil California.
American Bell Telephone Co., fifty
one companies, with $153,324.51(1.
American Bicycle Co., lifty-six com
panies.
American Book Co., school books.
American Brass Co., three mfgrs.
sheet brass.
American Bridge Co., twenty-four
principal concerns in the United States.
American Car and Foundry Co.,
railroad cars.
American Caramel Co, consolidated
two firms, almost whole cxj)ort trade
of the United States.
American Cement Co, mills, etc. In
Pennsylvania and New York.
American Cereal Co.
American Chicle Co, six large chew
ing gum companies.
American Clay Mfg. Co, twenty
seven pipe mfgrs. of Ohio, SO-So per
cent of all.
American Cotton Oil Co, 123 proper
ties in the South.
American Edible Nut Co, peanut
combination.
American Electric Heating Corpora
tion.
American Felt Co, nearly all In tlie
United States.
American Fisheries Co., fifteen to
eighteen menhaden oil companies—or
ganizing.
American Glue Company, plants hi
many States and cities.
American Gramophone Co, consolV
dated three companies.
American Grass Twine Co., consoli
dated three companies.
American Hide and Heather Go,
thirty-five companies, 85 t>er cent, of
the upper leather output,
American Ice Co, companies of New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
New Jersey.
American Iron and Steel Co., several
companies of Lebanon and Heading,
Penn.
American Jute Bagging Mfg. Co.
American Linseed Co, all principal
linseed oil companies in the United
States.
American Lithograph Co.
American Loom Co, three compa
nies.
American Malting Co, thirty-seven
companies, nearly all In the United
States.
American Ordnance Co, guns, pro
jectiles.
American Pastry and Mfg. Co, near
ly all pie bakers of New York.
American Pneumatic Service Co,
consolidated four companies con
ti'ols patents.
American Preservers' Co.
American Radiator Co, four compa
nies, 75 per ecut. of the United States
product.
American Sash and Door Co, thirty
two mills in Chicago.
American Screw Co.
American Sheet Steel Co, owns ICO
out of 215 mills In the United
States.
American Shipbuilding Co, ship
building, etc., on great lakes.
American Skewer Co, nearly all in
United States.
American Smelting and Refining Co,
controls many big companies.
American Snuff Co, 05 per cent of
product In the United States, controled
by American and Continental Tobacco
Co.
American Soda Fountain Co.
American Steel and Wire Co , con
trols these industries in the United
States.
American Steel Castings Co, sixty
seven plants.
American Steel Hoop Co, sixty
hoops, tie and hand companies.
American Stovehoavd Co, seven
companies.
American Strawboard Co, nineteen
companies.
American Sugar Refining Co, 70
per cent, of the United States product
Auierlc.-u Thread Co, thirteen cotton
thread companies, controlled by Eng
lish Cotton Co.
American Tin Plate Co, 280 mills,
95 per cent, of all.
Ame: lean Tobacco Co, plug busi
ness sold in 1898.
American Typefounders' Co, twen
ty-three companies in the United
States.
American Whip Co, twenty compa
nies.
American Window Glass Co, con
trols SO per cent, all in the United
States.
American Woodworking Machinery
Ca, fourteen companies, to receivers'
bands.
American Woolen Co, men's wool
ens, mills In New England.
American Wringer Ca
American Writing Paper Co, twen
ty-two companies, 7(1 per cent, of Uni
ted States output.
Armour & Co, controls packing
houses in Chicago, Omaha, Kansas
City, etc.
Asphalt Co. of America, controls 95
per cent, of trade in the United States
owns fourteen companies.
Atlantic Clay Co.
Atlas Tack Corporation, to l>e sold
under foreclosure, 50 iter cent tack
output
A SYNDICATED PRESIDENCY.
VVtiy Richard Olncj'n Striking Phrase
in M True One.
Mr. Olney has been much abused
for saying that the re-election of Mr.
McKinley "will mean that the Amer
ican people sanction a syndicated
Presidency."
Those who abuse him. however, are
careful not to quote what he said in
definition of his phrase:
"A syndicated Presidency—a Presi
dency got for the Republican party
by the money of a combination of cap
italists intent upon securing national
legislation in aid of their particular
interests."
Mr. Olney is a man who docs not
use words carelessly or lguorantly. In
further explanation and justification
of his biting phrase he declared that:
"Our Government was not conceived
or fin mod as a money-making ma
chine oven for the profit of all the
governed, much less for the profit of
particular classes or portions of the
governed."
The "vital principle and crowning
merit of our Government." he truly
said, "are that it stands for equal op
portunities to all." And with equal
truth he declared that:
"This theory of the true functions
of government McKinloyism directly
antagonizes. By protective tariffs, by
the most Intimate relations between
tlie United States Treasury and the
general money market, by subsidies to
particular Industries, by ail aggressive
colonial policy, and In other ways
it practically holds out the Govern
ment as an engine for use in the ac
quisition of private wealth."
Is not. this Indictment true?
Where docs Mark Hanna turn when
he starts to raise the enormous cam
paign fund which lie warns his sup
porters is essential to the election of
McKinley?
Does ho go to the people, as the
World did for its Cleveland campaign
fund In 1892? Not at all! He goes
to Wall street, with its syndicated
banks, controlled by or in alliance with
"the Standard Oil's own;" to Boston,
with its syndicated copper and other
trusts; to Philadelphia, with its syn
dicated fat-yielding protected indus
tries and coal combines; to Chicago,
with its syndicated contractors for
food supplies.
When Collector Hanna is out to fill
up Ids capacious campaign chest he
does not go to the men who carry
tlie "full dinner-pails" which he as
sumes that McKinley ism has filled. He
goes rather to the full money-bags
which have been made rotund by Mc-
Kinley bounties, McKinley subsidies,
McKinley contracts and other McKin
ley benefits, contributions from which
are not merely tithes from favors re
ceived, but the expression of a lively
hope of favors to come.
What word can more accurately de
scribe a Presidency obtained by this
means, for these ends, than that em
ployed by Mr. Gluey—"a syndicated
Presidency?"—-New York World.
Why Kapublinaufi Ar Apathetic.
Wliilo sucli optimistic sliouters for
McKlnley ns Chnuncoy M. Depew and
Theodore ltoosevclt are endeavoring to
humbug the people into the belief
that. McKinley's election is assured by
an overwhelming majority and that all
that remains for the Republicans is to
count the votes, Mark Ilnnnn, who
has undertaken the job to re-elect Me-
Kinley again, declares that the Repub
licans are "overconfident" and show
a great lack of interest in the Presi
dent.
Says Mr. Ila una:
"Overconfidenco is responsible for
the apathy so far manifest in this cam
paign. There were nearly 500,00 Re
publican voters so confident in 1802
that President Harrison would be re
elected that they did not take the trou
ble to go to the polls. Their negli
gence, due to over confidence, cost the
Republican party that election. We
are lacing the same conditions in this
campaign."
Mr. Ilanna undoubtedly has found
out that the apathy which exists among
the Republicans is due not so much
to "overconfidenco" as to disgust with
or Indifference to the imperialistic can
didate.
The thinking and independent Repub
licans of the country not only do not
enthuse over the administration and
the policy of the President, but view
with alarm the purpose of the Presi
dent to transform this free and popu
lar Government into a Government by
militarism and largo standing armies.
There is no cause for overconfidenco
on the part of the Republicans in .Mc-
Kinley's re-election, as Mr. Ilanna will
find out in due time.—Syracuse (N. Y.)
Telegram.
Tlio Shifty McKlnley.
What would McKlnley do without
his old standby, "commissionV" Ills
latest one is to go to China in an in
ternational capacity and help straight
en out the tangled affairs there. What
are our ministers and commanders for?
These commissions cost enormous
sums of money and really accomplish
little of value. However, they make
it easy for the administration to shift
and evade heavy official responsibili
ties.—Cleveland Recorder.
VANITIES OF THE INSANE
COSMETICS, WICS AND CURL PAPERS
IN DEMAND IN ASYLUMS.
Brick Past In Lieu of Rouno Crazy
Women Wlio Are FasttUlous In lto
lliM'U t* Tllelr Toilette Rivalry of
Preea Among tlie Mentally Cusonuil.
It Is a curious fact that many iusane
women are possessed with au insatia
ble vanity and a mania lor "mako-up,"
says the London Express.
Sometimes the oidy way to keep the
peace with such patients is to allow
them a certain freedom in the use
of cosmetics.
A wave of unnianageableness often
passes over the woman's side of au
asylum if the material of a new uni
form dress deserves the title of dowdy.
Many insane women will tear a
sombre brown gown to shreds. Hut if
it is a pretty blue or a smart red, the)
preserve it carefully against spots asi
dust.
The effect that dress has on the In
sane is so well known that the Lunacy
Commissioners make special comments
in their official reports to the Lord
Chancellor on the colors mid materials
of the gowns supplied to women In the
various asylums.
Very clever devices to obtain cos
metics are resorted to by patients
infected with the mania of vanity, who
hare been ueeustoiiied to artificial aids
to beauty.
Tlioy soak paper roses in water and
use the tinted result as a check red
derer. Or they put the red covers of
books borrowed from the asylum li
brary in a basin of boiling water and
bottle the carmine fluid for future face
use. Fresh flowers of reddish tinge
t are crushed and used on faded cheeks
and wrinkled skins.
One former society beauty, now In
nn asylum, is perfectly tractable so
loii(j us she Is allowed to water a curly
j false fringe and to use a modified
j amount of rouge and powder. If these
| are taken away she becomes suicidal
and refuses to cat.
j Another notable example Is that of
; an old woman with gray hair, who
becomes homicidal when she Is de
j [ 'rived of a beautiful golden wig suited
Ito a girl of seventeen. The experi
j mailt was tried one, but so much vlo
i lence resulted that the Commissioners
recommended that she should he al-
I lowed to retain her headdress.
| Before admission to the asylum she
; had poisoned three persons. But the
! wig aud plenty of pink [>owder keep
j her peaceable and content.
The friends of patients who find
| their happiness In personal decoration
; bring them small packets of cosmetics,
■ or rather they smuggle them In, for
: such articles are contraband and
j against the rules. Though their minds
: tire gone, the patients are clever
enough to make little holes In their
j mattresses and to Invent most cunning
hiding places for their treasures.
In those cases where restriction of
I toilet appliances Increase insane out
-1 breaks, the attendants let these little
! beauty stores pass by unnoticed. So
long as the make up is not too evident
the attendants do not interfere.
1 Strictly speaking curl papers are not
allowed in asylums. As a matter of
l fact their use Is overlooked. Curled
fringes and wavy locks often make all
the difference between peace and re
bellion. The Ingenuity displayed by
feeble minds in turning every-day arti
, cles to facial use is often surprising,
Brlckdust, scraped from the asylum
j walls, and powdered hearthstone have
| frequently figured In lieu of rouge and
i powder. A spoonful of red currant
jam provided a week's roses for pale
j cheeks. Indellable pencil, coal dust
and black lead make a dark stalu for
I colorless eyelashes and outline defi
j cient or white eyebrows.
•V handful of fiour, begged from thf
kitchen. Is an excellent substitute for
I toilet powder, while gray or faded link
: Is sometimes tinted with a strong <lo
, coctlon of tea leaves. A tendency to
I tight lace to such tiny proportions as
j to Interfere with sanity and bodily
| health is another foible of the woman
I u ith unhinged mind. Abnormal waists
I are counteracted by lacing tho corset
with elastic.
An Insane asylum would not seem
to offer many temptations to Its in
mates to rival one another In dress and
beauty. But generations of women pa
tients appear to make themselves hap
py by following a feminine instinct
to be personally attractive.
Woman in Tlil Brave World.
When a woman remains cheerful In
getting over a love affair, it is a sign
she is starting In on another.
It Is the hardest thlug In the world
to give an old maid a good time after
she has settled down to traveling in a
rut.
It Is funny, but In reading, women
fairly gloat over a heroine who meets
the hero, both fall in love without In
troduction and are married, while In
real life the average woman will
scream If her daughter speaks to a
man she has met every day In ten
years, hut to whom she has not been
Introduced.—Atchison Globe.
Itulv'rt Silk Industry.
The silk Industry lu Northern Italy
is making steady and considerable
progress. Lyons firms of dyers are
even opening branches lu tho neigh
borhood of I'orao. The exports of silk
goods from Italy rose from the amount
of $0,5G7,599 In IS9S to that of $9,453,-
254 in 1899. New silk mills are almost
constantly being erected, and there Is
little doubt that the city of Como will
some day become the most Important
silk manufacturing centre in Europe.
A Record Trip.
A motor ear journey of 340 miles,
from Moscow to Novgorod, Russia,
has beeu made in less than twelve
hours.
MASSACRES ALTER HISTORY. J
Tbelr Effect on the United State. \Va
Marked.
' Massacres have profoundly affected
the history of the United States, aside
from the way in which it was affected
l>y the influx of Huguenots as a conse
quence of the St. Bartholomew and
kindred crimes in France. The mur
ders of the French Protestants, under
kibuult, in Florida, by the Spaniard
Mcnendez in 15(35, sent the French to
Canada instead of to the south Atlan
tic coast of the present United States,
gave the latter to Spain, and thus
made Florida easier to win by the
United States after tills country's in
dependence was gained.
Devastation along the northern bor
der of New England by the French
and Indians In the various intercolo
nial wars, which ended witli 1703, in
cited the resistance on the part of
England and its dependencies which
drove France out of Canada and the
Mississippi Valley In that year, and
knstened the revolution, which, a
dozen years later, expelled England
from the thirteen colonies.
Onslaughts on the French in Santo
Dondngo by the negroes in 1801 and
ISO 2, that island being then a French
colony, prevented Bonaparte from
sending an army to take possession of
New Orleans, which had been retro
ceded to Fr nee by Spain, and was
one of the causes of the cession of
Louisiana by France t- the United
States in ISO 3, which was the first and
greatest expansion ever made by this
country, and which made all subse
quent expansions—Florida. Texas, Or
egon, California, New Mexico, Alaska,
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the 1' ilip
pincs—inevitable. Disraeli's assertion
in the case of Lincoln, that "assassina
tion has never changed the history of
the world," needs to be modified when
the assassination allect a race, or a
large element of a people, especially
when incited by religion or politics.—
Leslie's Weekly.
An American's Service In China's Army,
The lirst foreigner employed by the
Chinese for the reorganization of their
I army was an American, Frederick
Townsend Ward, a soldier of for-
I tune, born in Massachusetts. When
twenty-nine years old Ward, who had
I a high school education and lind served
\ in the French army, landed at Shang
hai. This was in 18(10, when the Taip
ing rebels were everywhere success
ful. Ward organized a band composed
of men of various nationalities and
offered to capture a city for a fixed
price. The first achievement of his
small army was the capture of the
walled town Sunkiahg, which was
j held by 10,000 rebels. As a reward he
was made a mandarin of the fßurth
rank. Ward then cleared the country
around Shanghai, being paid so much.
After a while he disappeared and was
next heard of when the natives at
tacked the city in large force, when
Ward appeared at the head of three
yvcU-urmc'd and well-drilled native reg
| imenis, who rescued Shanghai. There
: after ho became one of the leading
! men in the defense of Shanghai, lie
| adopted the Chinese nationality un
| dor the name of Ilwa, married the
! daughter of a wealthy mandarin of
[ the highest grade and admiral-general
,in the service of the emperor. Gen
i oral Ward died as the result of n
! wound received In directing an assault
jon Tsekle. The Chinese paid him the
highest possible honors after his death
by burying him in the Confucian Cem
etery, at Ningpo. Ward's successor in
command of the Chinese forces was
Major Charles G. Gordon—"Chinese"
| Gordon.
Recent Fire* in Yellowstone Pnrk. 1
The recent fires in the Yellowstone
Park were not so extensive as had
been generally believed. They covered,
according to a report by Colonel H.
M. Chittenden, the Government engi
neer In charge of Improvement work
In the park, about twelve square miles,
and were then extinguished by heavy
rains. The park has been unusually
dry tills season, and when the fires
started they found plenty of fuel. A
curious feature of fires In the Yellow
stone Purlc Is that they flourish In the
day and subside at night, owing to
the disappearance of the breeze with
the setting of the sun. "The ilnmes
I In one tree," says Colonel Chittenden,
"do not communicate to the next, lint
the blazing brands nre carried some
distance, and fall to the ground, where
they smoulder through the night,
some of them being extinguished,
though there always are enough left
to start another blaze when tlie morn
ing breeze fans their sparks. Then
another tree becomes ignited, and
roars and crackles furiously all day."
About eighty-four per cent, of tlie
park Is a wilderness, and, according
to Colonel Chittenden, no amount of
fighting that could be (lone would
stay the progress of the flames. Tlie
best that could bo done was at night
in the way of hunting out tlie smoul
dering embers and extinguishing them.
Not Three Day* of Grace.
It was the middle of tlie week when
the young man appeared at the office
to make his excuses and explanations.
"Y"ou should liave returned from your
vacation last Monday, sir," said tlie
proprietor of the establishment "You
were having a good time at that sum
mer resort I suppose, and thought you
were entitled to three days oft grace?"
"N-not exactly," stammered the
young man, with heightened color.
"Laura, Bir."—Chicago Tribune.
A Deadly Sea Flower,
An exquisite sea flower, something
like an aster, grows at great depths
in the ocean. It looks innocent enough,
but it is charged with such a deadly
poison that a small fish touching one
of the beautiful petals is instantly
killed, and its body is then drawn
down by the waving leaves to tlia
! plant's mouth and ig literally eaten,